Provides an introduction to and implementation of chained hash tables. Hash tables are data structures that are used when you are managing a large amount of data and need to be able find an item ...
The table part is just an ordinary array, it is the hash that we are interested in. The hash is a function that transforms a string (it could be other things, too; but this article is just about ...
The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...